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  • Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism

    by Gilbert Achcar
    Erudite, incisive, and innovative, the essays provide an insightful examination of key themes in Middle East and Marxist scholarship.

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    by Justin Akers Chacón
    A ground-breaking history of the radical political movements that developed within the Mexican and Chicano working-class in the United States.

  • Capitalism, Technology, Labor

    Edited by Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, et al.

    This volume offers a radical critique of techno-utopianism, instead seeing innovation as a field of ongoing class struggle.

  • The Stalinist Legacy

    Edited by Tariq Ali
    Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.

  • Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

    Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

    This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

  • Revolutionary Rehearsals

    Edited by Colin Barker
    Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.

  • The Spectre of Babeuf

    by Ian Birchall
    Gracchus Babeuf has long been recognized as an important precursor of the revolutionary socialist tradition.

  • The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain

    by Pierre Broué and Émile Témime
    An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.

  • The Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948

    by Musa Budeiri
    This is the definitive account of a secular party that forged links between Arabs and Jews.

  • Marx and Nature

    by Paul Burkett
    Marx’s treatment of natural conditions possesses an inner logic, coherence, and analytical power which has not been previously recognized

  • The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx

    by Alex Callinicos
    An accessible, enlightening, and compelling introduction to Karl Marx's ideas, with an emphasis on their enduring relevance.

  • A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital

    by Joseph Choonara

    Marx’s groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx’s masterpiece, Capital.

  • Building the Party

    by Tony Cliff
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that...

  • Party and Class

    by Tony Cliff and Duncan Hallas
    These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions, if we are to achieve real change.

  • The Revolution Besieged

    by Tony Cliff
    The last installment of Tony Cliff's biography of Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin, available for the first time in the U.S.

  • Holding Fast to an Image of the Past

    by Neil Davidson
    Davidson discusses how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized.

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?

    by Neil Davidson
    A historical defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)

    by Neil Davidson
    The globalized economy of the present is the result of political and social revolutions directed against pre-capitalist economic structures.

  • Nation-States

    by Neil Davidson
    Davidson argues that a Marxist understanding of the meaning of contemporary nation-states must begin from the inseparable connections between them.

  • We Cannot Escape History

    by Neil Davidson
    The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.

  • The Adventures of The Communist Manifesto

    by Hal Draper

    A new, definitive, translation of the Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Mannifesto by American socialist luminary, Hal Draper.

  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

    Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

  • Returns of Marxism

    Edited by Sara R Farris
    Inspiring and thoroughly researched collection of contemporary Marxist essays that engage the struggle of our times.

  • Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party

    by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
    Trotsky’s own words on revolutionary organization, from 1917 to 1940, highlight the dynamics of democratic initiative and principled centralism.